Privacy Policy
Effective 7 October 2026
Trove is a location game, but it doesn't track where you are: your explorer moves where you tap on the map, and we never ask for your device's GPS. This policy explains exactly what we do keep, why, and for how long.
1. Who we are
Trove is responsible for the data described here.
2. What we collect
| Data | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your wallet address (public key) | To sign you in and identify your account | While your account exists |
| Your username, if you set one | Shown on leaderboards, live pulls and results | While your account exists |
| Game activity: crates you open (crate, spirit, the map position of your explorer, time), shards, XP, draw tickets and chase spots | To run the game, show your collection and count the live stats | While your account exists |
| Comments you post on a spirit's page | Shown publicly on that page | Until you delete them or your account |
| Shop payments: what you bought, the amount, the transaction signature and the paying wallet address | To confirm the payment on Solana and deliver what you bought | Kept as a record; the transfer itself is public on the Solana blockchain |
| A sign-in challenge (a random value tied to your wallet) | To check your signature when you sign in | Expires after 10 minutes |
| A session cookie (trove_session) | To keep you signed in | 30 days, or until you sign out |
| When you were last active | To count players online right now | Replaced as you play |
| Approximate city from your IP address, supplied by our host | To start the home page map near you | Not stored |
| Your explorer's last map position | So the map opens where you left off | In your own browser only |
We don’t use advertising trackers, we don’t sell your data, and we only ask your wallet for a transaction when you start a Shop payment yourself.
3. What’s public
Your username (or a shortened wallet address if you haven’t set one), the spirits you pull, your XP and rank, and draw and chase results are shown to other players on the site.
4. Who else handles it
- Vercel hosts the site and sees standard request data, such as your IP address, in its logs.
- Turso stores the game database.
- OpenFreeMap serves the map tiles and unpkg serves the map library, so your browser connects to them directly.
5. Your choices
- You can change your username any time from your profile.
- You can delete your account from your profile. That removes your wallet address, username, collection, cosmetics and crate history; Shop payments stay only as an anonymous record of the on-chain transfer. Past draw and chase results keep an anonymous entry, so they can still be checked.
- Clearing your browser storage forgets your explorer’s last position.
6. Changes
If we change this policy we’ll post the new version here with a new effective date.